H06.27 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

primitives, routines implicitly called from native-compiled code, emulators for TNS floating-point
arithmetic, and emulators for privileged-only or long-running TNS machine operations.
Open System
Services (OSS)
An open system environment available for interactive or programmatic use with the HP NonStop
operating system. Processes that run in the OSS environment usually use the OSS application
program interface. Interactive users of the OSS environment usually use the OSS shell for their
command interpreter. Synonymous with Open System Services (OSS) environment.
Open System
Services (OSS)
environment
The HP NonStop Open System Services (OSS) application program interface (API), tools, and
utilities.
Open System
Services (OSS)
Monitor
A Guardian utility that accepts commands affecting OSS objects through an interactive Guardian
interface named the Subsystem Control Facility (SCF).
planner 1. The Distributed Systems Management/Software Configuration Manager (DSM/SCM) user
who is responsible for planning and managing new software revisions. The planner uses the
DSM/SCM Planner Interface to carry out these functions.
2. A person who participates in planning a new HP NonStop™ system.
Planner Interface A graphical user interface (GUI) to the Distributed Systems Management/Software Configuration
Manager (DSM/SCM) that runs on the host system. It provides an interface to all the host
DSM/SCM planner functions.
privileged
architecture library
(PAL)
A firmware library based on the Intel® Itanium® architecture.
release version
update (RVU)
A collection of compatible revisions of HP NonStop operating system software products, identified
by an RVU ID, and shipped and supported as a unit. An RVU consists of the object modules,
supporting files, and documentation for the product revisions. An RVU also includes a set of
documentation for the overall RVU.
RELOAD An HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) command to load the HP NonStop
operating system image from disk over the ServerNet fabrics into the memory of the processor.
shadow The processor used to check the results of the master processor on a processor board.
triplex Having three active processor elements per logical processor. Also called triple-modular
redundancy (TMR).
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